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06-08-2016, 12:24 PM | #1 |
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White wall cleaner?
What does everyone use to clean and protect your wide white wall tires?
Can't seem to find a lot of specific cleaners and Coker cleaner doesn't ship to Canada. |
06-08-2016, 12:30 PM | #2 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
Westley's Bleach White if they still make it.
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06-08-2016, 12:52 PM | #3 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
The Coker reps suggest not using that bleach white. Guy told me just use simple green
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06-08-2016, 01:24 PM | #4 | |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
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06-08-2016, 01:42 PM | #5 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
I have used SOS Pads for cleaning, fwiw,
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06-08-2016, 01:47 PM | #6 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
Simple green and grey scotch bright pads. No wesleys.
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06-08-2016, 02:32 PM | #7 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
Comet household cleaner. It has bleach in it.
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06-13-2016, 01:41 AM | #8 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
They work good even when really dirty.
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06-13-2016, 07:39 AM | #9 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
this! use it for the same reason and it works great
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06-13-2016, 09:50 AM | #10 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
Simple Green and a stiff bristle brush. If needed I break out a scotchbrite pad......
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06-15-2016, 11:33 PM | #11 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
Westley's Bleach white is still available and works GREAT
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06-08-2016, 06:03 PM | #12 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
Softscrub and an ordinary kitchen sponge.
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06-08-2016, 06:21 PM | #13 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
I've used sos pads on my harley white walls for years.
There are Coker dealers in Canada....maybe one of them carry the Coker cleaner?
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06-08-2016, 06:59 PM | #14 | |
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06-08-2016, 08:46 PM | #15 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
I used Wesleys religiously for 3 years on my Coker bias whites. Cleaned fantastically, but man did I ruin the rubber!! It dried the white walls terribly, and cracked them to death. Replaced them with radial wide whites, and now am just as satisfied with sos pads and window cleaner. Still have the Wesleys on the shelf, but these wide whites are just too damn expensive to ruin that way! Learned my lesson !
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06-08-2016, 11:16 PM | #16 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
Meguiars has a great spray cleaner and it works fantastic on white walls and or lettering. spray on, wait about 1 minute and hose off. simple and clean.
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06-10-2016, 12:32 PM | #17 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
Sos pads worked great on my Harley white walls
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06-10-2016, 08:59 PM | #18 |
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06-10-2016, 09:45 PM | #19 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
My experience with Coker's tire cleaner was a waste of time. The best I've used is a cleaner called "Awesome", it's available at Dollar Tree and Walmart.
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06-11-2016, 10:34 AM | #20 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
Aluminum brightener works great. It is an acid so don't get it on your hands. If you are going to polish aluminum wheels use it first then polish them. It will clean all that mess off the tires also. You can find it at big truck chrome shops or by the gallon at air conditioning shops they use it to clean the coils.
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06-16-2016, 12:47 AM | #21 |
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Re: White wall cleaner?
I used SOS pad on my 51 Merc when I was 16 in 1963 and have used them off and on ever since when I had white walls on a rig. I've used bleach white at times but to me it didn't work any better and I used Simple green and a scrub pad on the last Cad that I had that had whitewall tires.
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